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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named near Eisenach, or perhaps a topographic name from Middle High German winter ‘winter’ + stan ‘stone’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Winter ‘winter’ + Stein ‘stone’.

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